If you can dream it, civil engineers can build it. Almost every piece of infrastructure you see (and lots you don’t) were designed by civil engineers: buildings, bridges, tunnels, dams, highways, airports, water and sewer systems. Civil engineers meet the needs of the future by balancing human demands with the requirements for healthy, natural environments.
To address the complex problems we face with designing and implementing infrastructure to serve a growing population, civil engineers need to understand a wide array of systems and how they interact. Designing energy and resource-efficient structures, roads, bridges, and treatment systems requires engineers to have an understanding of the properties of materials, computer-aided design, environmental factors, statics, and dynamics. Civil engineers collaborate with other engineers on heating and cooling systems, electrical systems, and finding ways to minimize the environmental impact of new construction.